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The most plausible chain of events in defeating US Patriot batteries. Go Vlad, our Patriot batteries belong in the US.

“ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the American anti-aircraft complex Patriot in Kyiv with a strike of a hypersonic missile “Kinzhal”. During the attack, Ukrainian air defense used up several dozen Patriot, SAMP-T, IRIS, NASAMS and S-300 missiles, but failed to prevent the Russian strike. In addition to the Patriot division, several positions of other air defense systems were destroyed. Experts note that the RF Armed Forces used the tactics of combating American air defense systems, developed back in the 90s. After many years, it has proven its effectiveness on the battlefield.
Patriot, which was delivered to Ukraine, is one of the first versions that is transported on semi-trailers, military expert Alexei Leonkov told Izvestia. - Its peculiarity is that it occupies a certain positional area about two by two kilometers in size. Another feature is that it had eight launchers, although usually there are two or three per battery. And then we saw a desperate attempt by the Patriot to shoot down the “Kinzhal”, which was flying towards them. They’ve used up all their ammo. 32 missiles flew away, did not hit. As a result, the “Kinzhal” destroyed the heart of this Patriot - the radar and control center. And it became useless.

I won’t go into details, but she forced the Patriot into action,” he explained. “Thus, the positional area where the Patriot was located was discovered, and a Kinzhal attack was made on it. This proves that the Patriot radar was unable to determine the approach of the Kinzhal. And only when it became clear that the Kinzhal was already heading towards them, they began to shoot back. But the Patriot cannot shoot down a Kinzhal. 32 missiles is a very large expense. This indicates the complete inefficiency of the Patriot in relation to the hypersonic complex.

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